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Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald and with illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Quarto, original publisher's gold-stamped vellum with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers, title page on Japanese vellum, with 20 intricate full color plates tipped in to decorated Japanese vellum mounts with lettered tissue guards. This edition is limited to seven hundred and fifty copies signed by Edmund Dulac, of which this is number 212. In near fine condition. Eleventh-century Persian poet and mathematician Omar Khayyam composed more than one thousand quatrains, or rubaiyat, on love and mortality, expressing an enigmatic theology that has been interpreted and disputed over the course of centuries. Scholar Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883), first translator and author of five separate English versions of the Rubaiyat, did not produce strict translations as much as loose "transmogrifications" of the poetry, often taking great liberties with the original Persian text. Nevertheless, he remains the most famous of Omar Khayyam's translators, and is credited with bringing the Rubaiyat to broad public notice in the English-speaking world.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12" x 10"; pp. [162]; Edition DeLuxe, #199 of 750 signed by Edmund Dulac, on hand moulded pape, pictorial vellum bound, 20 color plates tipped in/mounted loose wthin decorative gilt border; text within decorative brown border, Edward Fitzgeralds 1868 text. Potter 131
Seller: Little Sages Books, ABAA/ILAB, Longmont, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 750 deluxe copies, signed by the illustrator. Hardcover, bound in decorative gilt-stamped vellum, top edge gilt, illustrated with 20 tipped-in color plates. Some minor scuffing and the common splay to the boards; the un-cut fore-edge rippled; ties renewed.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. Tipped in color illustrations by Edmund Dulac, each with printed tissue overleaf. Folio, publisher's gilt vellum; t.e.g. One of the original ribbon ties is detached but present. First edition; No. 190 of 750 copies signed by Edmund Dulac. Some minor soiling to the white vellum; covers very slightly bowed; contents very fine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
KHAYYAM Omar DULAC Edmond. Rubaiyat. Hodder and Stoughton, 1909.
Price: US$1523.42 + shipping
Description: - Hodder and Stoughton, London 1909, In-4 (22x28,6cm), relié. - | Le chef d'oeuvre de Khayyam par un maître de l'Age d'or de l'Illustration | Imprimée sur la seconde édition sur papier courant après l'originale parue également en 1909 et limitée à 750 exemplaires signés par l'artiste. Impression sur papier vélin. Cartonnage d'éditeur en pleine percaline crème avec une grande plaque décorative dorée sur le premier plat. Ce cartonnage avait déjà servi pour le premier tirage. Dos lisse. Titre et éditeur dorés. Rousseurs pâles éparses dans les marges. Quelques salissures sur le cartonnage, mais bel exemplaire. Un feuillet volant de l'exposition des originaux aux galeries de Leicester datant de 1909. [ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] | Khayyam's masterpiece by a master of the Golden Age of Illustration | London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1909]. Signed limited edition, one of 750 copies signed by the artist. Original publisher's cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, front cover with elaborate design in gilt. Colour frontispiece and colour plates mounted on cream paper, captioned tissue-guards, by Edmund Dulac. Cloth soiled, some foxing to margins. With a loose leaflet advertising the exhibition of the original drawings at Leicester galleries in 1909.
Seller: Librairie Le Feu Follet, Paris, France
Price: US$1614.29 + shipping
Description: , approximately 120 unpaginated pages, 20 tipped in colour illustrations by Edmund Dulac, number 547 of a limited edition of 750 signed by Edmund Dulac on the limitation page Limited Edition , some browning to fore edge of vellum on front board, edges untrimmed and darkened in places, book in very good condition , slipcase discoloured and worn around edges, fair condition , full vellum, gilt title to front and spine, elaborate gilt decoration to front board, patterened endpapers, gilt top edge, ribbons , 32 cm x 25.5 cm Hardback SIGNED by illustrator ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$2582.87 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited UK edition No. 242/750 signed by the artist Edmund Dulac (the American Limited edition run is smaller but not signed). Comes with slipcase. Silk ties and all illustrations are present,covered by tissue guards (all present) and are very good indeed. Vellum is uniformly browned. Page edges are browned and the bottom page edges have some darkening towards the spine but this does not penetrate to pages. A sound copy of this beautiful book. No inscriptions. Extra postage applies. More images available on request.
Seller: Langton Books, Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$3551.45 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 259 of 750 copies signed by the artist. Edmund Dulac's illustrations for the Rubáiyát helped to confirm his position as "a direct challenger in the illustrated gift book market to the work of Arthur Rackham" (ODNB). Fitzgerald's translation was first published in 1859 and slowly gained recognition as a masterpiece of English literature. By the early 1900s many of Fitzgerald's phrases had entered the common stock of English quotations and allusions; a growing "cult of the Rubáiyát" found expression in "the Omar Khayyám Clubs of England and America" (Yohannan, p. 202). Hughey, in her bibliography of Dulac, records the opinion of the publisher George H. Doran (who published the American edition). Doran stated that "the book was a joy and a treasure. Its public acceptance was immediate and great". Hughey 21. John D. Yohannan, Persian Poetry in England and America, 1977. Quarto. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, front cover with elaborate design in gilt, patterned endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut, renewed silk ties. Colour frontispiece and 19 colour plates mounted on cream paper, captioned tissue-guards, by Edmund Dulac. Gift inscription on first page. Spine a little toned and creased, minor marks to covers, crease to one plate, minor chip to rear free endpaper: a near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom